JERUSALEM - Israel's vice prime minister said Iran
should be expelled from the United Nations after its new president said
Israel should be "wiped off the map," and Britain summoned
an Iranian diplomat Thursday to protest the remarks.

Italy on Thursday also condemned the words of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, telling the Iranian ambassador the comments were "unacceptable"
and that they confirm worries over the political positions — and nuclear
intentions — of Iran's new leadership.

Shimon Peres, Israel's vice prime minister and a Nobel
peace laureate, said it was "impossible to ignore" Ahmadinejad's
comments.

"Since the United Nations was established in 1945,
there has never been a head of state that is a U.N. member state that publicly
called for the elimination of another U.N. member state," Shimon Peres
told Israel Radio.

In a speech Wednesday in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said "there
is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this
stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world."

Ahmadinejad spoke during a conference called "The
World without Zionism."

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said
Israel protested Iran's comments Wednesday at the United Nations but has
not decided whether to ask officially for Iran's removal.

Peres said he would discuss the Iranian threat with
Russia's visiting foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Thursday.

Israel accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons and
wants the U.N. Security Council to consider sanctions against the Tehran
government. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful.

Lavrov on Wednesday brushed off Israel's calls for
Security Council action, saying the matter is "too serious to be guided
by politics." Lavrov said that Russia will follow the lead of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, which is investigating the Iranian nuclear program,
and believes that talk of sanctions is premature.

Russia is one of the five permanent members of
the Security Council, with veto power over all resolutions considered by
the body.

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